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PsychContinuingEd.com: Psychology Continuing Education Resources DirectoryThis site focuses on APA approved CE opportunities for Psychologists, however many of these opportunities are appropriate for counselors, social workers, psychiatrists, nurses, educational professionals, school psychologists and other mental health professionals. Special emphasis is given to those programs with online independent study, however also listed are at home opportunities through a book, workbook, video, cd, dvd, tape or other audio program. Courses/providers listed on this site are approved by the American Psychological Association, however you should doublecheck the website regarding the current status of accreditation (most have multiple). There is also a small separate list of providers who are not APA approved (check their accreditations page). You can also check with your state board (in the USA) for specific CE requirements/procedures for your state (if any). |
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Links to sites offering Psychology continuing education courses or listingsPlease feel free to suggest a site by emailing toddfinnerty@toddfinnerty.comPlease feel free to give your colleagues feedback to help them choose courses in the future as well as read other peoples' experiences with course providers at the public Psych Continuing Education Blog. ABED Continuing Edwww.psychceu.com ABED Continuing Ed! APA, APT, BRN, CA BBS, FL, NAADAC, NASW, NBCC, OH, STA & TX Approved Continuing Education provider for psychologists, play therapists, mental health professionals, and nursing professionals. I got a chuckle from this quote on the site "yes..you REALLY can take your continuing education units in bed!"Academic ReviewAcademic Review has both purchasing individual courses as well as allowing you to buy "subscription plans" where you pay for a number of credits (pretty inexpensive per credit, actually) and put them towards the courses you want to take. It is another one of those sites that lists the course titles without much other information such as the author or a brief abstract/summary and so you have to click on the links for details. The selection of courses include: Disaster Response Handbook for the Mental Health Professions (psychological first aid), a course which uses the text: A Casebook of Psychotherapy Integration , a 15 CE course for $149 based on: Helping Children Cope With Disasters and Terrorism , as well as an 18 CE course for $144 (as of 3/2008): Clinical Neuropsychology: A Pocket Handbook For Assessment .Affect PlusAffect Plus offers high quality, nationally approved continuing education for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists. A provider of CE courses since 1988, we offer a learning experience that is worth your time and money. We carefully select relevant books and online material authored by experts in the field. You can count on dependable and helpful service before or after ordering our CE courses. ALL course materials are included in one low price...There are no extra steps or cost of ordering books separately. Courses include an online or by mail option. CE courses include Ethics, ADHD, Adolescent Therapy, Bipolar Disorder, Children and Families, Compassion Fatigue, Depression, Domestic Violence, Dream Work, Expert Witness, Grief, Loneliness, Medical Errors, OCD, Older Adults and Aging, PhotoTherapy, PTSD, Psychopharmacology, Sexual Abuse, Stepfamilies, Solution-focused Brief Therapy, and more. (APA and NBCC -approved provider.)Ethics Course Alert: Check out Ethical Decision-Making: Dual Relationships and Boundary Issues at this site by Kenneth Pope, Ph.D., ABPP, Jeffrey N. Younggren, Ph.D., ABPP, Janet L.Sonne, Ph.D., Thomas G. Gutheil, M.D. and Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. I haven't taken it yet but it looks good. One thing I like about this course is that it uses materials available on Dr. Ken Pope's website that you can review before signing up for the course. The course materials are available for viewing prior to purchase. I haven't taken this course yet, I'd be interested in your experience with it if you do (Dr. Pope is also an author/ed of a number of books including: The MMPI, MMPI-2 & MMPI-A in Court: A Practical Guide for Expert Witnesses and Attorneys 
and How To Survive And Thrive As A Therapist: Information, Ideas, And Resources For Psychologists In Practice
Alexander, Ph.D. (Christopher J.)alexanderphd.com credits based on books- (primarily child related, especialy attachment and adoption issues) still appears heavily postal mail based.The American Psychological Association (APA)The APA has a lot of resources for continuing education in Psychology. In addition to requirements, there are both listings of conference calendars as well as home study courses on the site. I have done some distance education through the APA with some online articles I downloaded from there and it worked quite smoothly. You can also check out this list of APA approved sponsors of continuing education. I don't intend to list any non-APA approved providers on this site without calling your attention to that fact. You can also download a PDF of APA's independent study catalog or request a copy from them. There are a few course options in the onlince academy including topics on Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia and many more in the list of independent study programs based on DVDs, books or journal articles. For example, among the selections is a DVD-working with headaches; A cognitive therapy DVD w/ Dr. Judith Beck; and CEs based on texts such as:Acute Stress Disorder: A Handbook of Theory, Assessment, and Treatment  Caring for Ourselves: A Therapist's Guide to Personal and Professional Well-Being  Clinical Hypnosis and Self-Regulation: Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives (Dissociation, Trauma, Memory, and Hypnosis Book Series)  The Expert Expert Witness: More Maxims and Guidelines for Testifying in Court  Expert Witnesses in Child Abuse Cases: What Can and Should Be Said in Court  Healing From Within: The Use of Hypnosis in Women's Health Care  Neuropsychological Assessment of Dementia and Depression in Older Adults: A Clinician's Guide  Personality Disorders and the Five-Factor Model of Personality  Psychological Assessment of Adult Posttraumatic States: Phenomenology, Diagnosis, and Measurement  You're on: Consulting for Peak Performance  Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences (AATBS)AATBS As much as I joke remembering how expensive EPPP test materials were, AATBS courses appear surprisingly inexpensive. They even have a FREE 1 CE online video course (video apparently by the Pentagon Channel) at Free 1 credit PTSD course There are a number of selections here and probably worth checking out, including inexpensive listings of empirically validated treatments for various disorders, though its hard to comment on quality since I have never used them before and haven't reviewed the material.Audio Digest FoundationADF.org offers CD, cassette and MP3 format CEs. Each Audio-Digest Psychiatry home study activity is offered for 2 CE credits for psychologists.Biofeedback Foundation of EuropeBFE.org has some APA and BCIA approved online courses which appear to be scheduled and are presumably live. This of course would be of more interest to individuals looking for CE related to biofeedback, neurofeedback, etc.CE-Classes.comCE-classes.com appears fairly inexpensive and it looks like you get some of the courses in PDF or word format, that being said the course directory doesn't present as particularly exciting at first glance.CE-Credit.comCE-Credit.com sent me a brochure reporting 800 course titles with a fee per course of $17-$87 or an unlimited package for $137 (check current pticing on the website). The website appears worth a look and you can browse by category. The appear to have courses based on books, videos and online media.CE 4 LESSCE4Less.com has online courses and is advertising unlimited courses for one price. In addition, they seem to be offering free ces including three free ethics courses you can take online. Some of their courses they provide the materials and it looks like they also have quite a few that are also based on books. A few of the book selections include:Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents, Second Edition  Assessment of Children: Cognitive Applications  The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome: Completely Revised and Updated: Advice, Support, Insight, and Inspiration  Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Second Edition  Bipolar Disorder: A Cognitive Therapy Approach  Treatments That Work With Children: Empirically Supported Strategies for Managing Childhood Problems  Assessment of Eating Disorders  Domestic Violence Sourcebook, The  Treating Gambling Problems (Wiley Treating Addictions series)  Essentials of Treatment Planning  Clinicians in Court: A Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know  Post-traumatic and Acute Stress Disorders: The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies  Children's Use of Board Games in Psychotherapy  CE-NOW
CE-NOW.com offers CE's based on books. They advertise $5/credit hour and buying professional books at a 25% discount (as well as borrowing books from their library for a reasonable fee- though perhaps not free like interlibrary loan from your local library might be). |
The Top 10 Psychology Continuing Education Courses List is actually not actively being developed at this time, however users are invited to suggest courses for a Top 10 list or even use it as an expression such as "To be considered for one of the top 10" when leaving your course reviews on the blog. I am actually writing a book and possibly some related continuing education courses and therefore would like to avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest when I rate courses based on my new book as the #1 online CE course on the internet ;) Incidentally, you can learn more about by new book and register to receive updates at depressivepersonality.com
Check out PTSD: The Wound Within, A FREE 1 credit coursed based on a video from the Pentagon Channel offered at AATBS. The Description: "Exploring the debilitating condition of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. You'll meet service members whose physical battlefield injuries have healed, but yet emotional wounds linger on." You can watch the video online. This sounds like a relevant course given the number of soldiers "coming home," and the price is right. This provider also offers a number of other inexpensive courses.
Check out homestudycredit.com for a 1 credit FREE course "Brief Interventions for Anxiety Disorders with Children."
Florid International University apparently is an APA accredited CE provider and its difficult to resist the allure of 12 Free C.E. credits. I have not reviewed the "online course for practitioners in Mental Health & Child Welfare," however it appears to be related to medicating children. It appears to have been publicly funded by a grant. The website for the 12 Free APA accredited CE's appears to be broken down in to modules so you may not have to take all the credits if you don't want to. It is available at criticalthinkrx.org
I also had to fulfill my ethics credits and went ahead and did a course I'm actually considering for the initial top ten list or atleast a featured ethics course list. Its an ethics course "Ethical Decision-Making: Dual Relationships and Boundary Issues." currently described in the Affect Plus directory listing. I recently took this course and found many positives, though it was in my mind of course, inherrently flawed because it was an ethics course and I'd rather not have to sit through one of those ;) I take solace in the fact that I actually ended up investing much less time than I would have if I had gone out somewhere to take an ethics course, even though this one was 4 hours and only 3 are required in Ohio (I don't think it actually took me 4 full hours to complete though). I will use this course as an example of things I find helpful in an online course, however. You are able to view the materials before you purchase so you can be sure you want to actually read it. You can print out the test before you start and answer the questions open book as you go through the materials, and the test questions logically follow the text, answering the questions in order as you proceeed. While at some points the language was a bit psychodynamic for me, the material was relevant and boundaries are something that comes up in ethics discussions enough. The course certificate was immediately available to print out upon completion. My only one warning was that there was a 5 point discussion question at the end of the test that appeared to be a gimme as the irections stated "you may write as much or as little as you wish," however upon scoring the test my concise, one sentence answer was "too short to receive credit." Given that it was open book I didn't even have to answer this question to pass and get the certificate though. I'll close my thoughts on this with a quote from Dr. Ken Pope on one of the articles that the course is based on, it "is one of the essential works that every clinician, supervisor, expert witness, and member of a licensing board or ethics committee should read and be familiar with."
J&K Seminars has two ethics courses from Dr. Gerald Koocher
Avoiding Quicksand - Managing Risky Ethical and Malpractice Situations in Mental Health Practice
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Ethics Update for Experienced Therapists
Special Section: Disability Related Continuing Education |
Healthforumonline.com has a course called Adult Mental Health Social Security Disability (SSD) Report Writing: Guiding Health Professionals through the Maze.
Special Section: Disaster and Crisis Response |
The APA is a good site to check out for this, for example they have a course on Evidence Based Group Treatments for Survivors of Catastrophic Trauma.
The ICISF is the place to look for a calendar of conferences if you're interested in CISM-specific training.
If you like the idea of getting certifications, etc. along with your CEs why not check out the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress
Also to be developed: course "favorite lists" by topic- feel free to suggest topics that we can begin to catalog favorite courses under- such as child psychology, custody evaluations, forensic psychology ethics, etc.
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Some of the online ce providers offer some of their courses for free, or have even more deep discounts if you go with a subscription plan, etc. Also, if you're looking for a CE program as long as one based on a book, most appear to have a separate price for the ce credit/test and the book is separate (no purchase necessary). You could (a)shop around for the book such as with amazon, or if you're not sure you want to own it why not get it from the library (inter-library loan if necessary). I plan to start a collection of links to some of the free courses out there, as well.
Testing companies tend to offer continuing education related to their tests (they're beginning to remind me of a "lite" version of drug companies ;), You may want to look for free "webinars" on tests though if you're interested in learning about them and deciding whether you're going to buy it as opposed to paying lots of money for a sponsored infomercial. If you're interested in new Psychological tests that may be coming out in the future such as the new Wechsler Adult Intellgence Scale 4th edition (WAIS-IV), or the WMS-IV or MMPI-2-RF and would like directions to find tests and resources related to psych testing I have a page for that ;)
If you are interesed in specific CE topic areas, why not take the time to perform a yahoo or google search to locate organizations related to that topic and see if they have a calendar of conferences/courses or even online ce. You might even be interested in hearing a specific person speak (perhaps before they die/retire which is really what has motivated my wife and I to go to the APA Convention in the past) which could lead you to their website or even emailing them with questions about upcoming presentations.
Have a hospital or other site nearby with grand rounds? You could go worse places for lunch (though if it was on a pharmaceutical company's dime who knows?).
You could check out your state psychological association's website, they may offer independent study courses.
| Business/Professional Expense Tip: | Keeping business/professional expenses separate from personal expenses is important, and I’ve discovered a separate card is really handy for that. Plus, if you’re going to have expenses why not get rewards and/or cash back on them? Besides, theres something flashy about an American Express Card, even if it is just to impress the cute girl or guy at Starbucks or Caribou Coffee ;) Why not act now to get a business/professional expense card- not only will you get rewards, but American Express offers really handy spending reports that help with tracking your spending and deductions at tax time. CE expenses can add up quickly, why not both keep track of it and earn cashback or other rewards. AMEX cards are great because they have great resources and discounts to help small businesses and professionals and they look snazzy. |
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